Grow Old Along with Me

In the modern western world, we
tend to regard art either as decoration, to add color and interest
to our homes and public buildings, or as something remote from
practical life, to be preserved in museums.

Direct Impact Creativity: A creative
act or action that has an immediate and transformative effect
on the life process.

Socrates said, Change a countrys music and you change the countrys
political system. In Bali, artists are respected as persons of vision
who know how the world ought to be and whose work is the key to future planning
and behavior.

But as Socrates, the people
of Bali, and many contemporary street artists know, creative, artistic
work is born out of an impulse
for change, for development; its expression is a call to the
viewer or hearer to change his or her life.

This is what is meant
by Direct
Impact Creativity: a creative act that has a
directive and transformative impact on ones life.

One day, while leading a group in my workshop, Death and Resurrection, I realized
I was in fact working directly on the internal aspect, the souls, of the participants.
This structure was my artistic medium, and as a result of this particular creative
act, people were finding possibilities of changing their lives for the better.

If we are going to play this game, we may as well play with important themes:
love, death, sexuality, relationship, power. By playing with these themes artistically
and in a safe setting, we can affect the whole environment of our lives.